Experts have criticized the watchdog’s response to Meta’s major overhaul of fact-checking. But was it ever a real check on power in the first place?

Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and novelist Khaled Mansour have warned that disinformation ‘can very much kill’

The co-chairwoman of Meta’s oversight board said she is “very concerned” by the social media company’s decision to scrap its top-down fact-checking system and instead opt for X’s community notes approach to combat disinformation and hate speech.